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Ghost Rider is a fictional superhero that appears in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Johnny Blaze is the second Marvel character to use the name Ghost Rider, following the Western comics hero later known as the Phantom Rider, and preceding Daniel Ketch. Johnny Blaze was portrayed both in the 2007 film ''Ghost Rider'', and its 2012 sequel ''Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance'', by actor Nicolas Cage. ==Publication history== Following the western comics character who originally used the name, the first superhero Ghost Rider, Johnny Blaze, debuted in ''Marvel Spotlight'' #5 (Aug. 1972), created by writer-editor Roy Thomas, writer Gary Friedrich, and artist Mike Ploog. He received his own series in 1973, with penciller Jim Mooney handling most of the first nine issues. Several different creative teams mixed-and-matched until penciller Don Perlin began a long stint with issue #26, eventually joined by writer Michael Fleisher through issue #58. Thomas, Marvel's editor-in-chief at the time, described the character's genesis: Friedrich on the above, in 2001: Ploog recalled, in a 2008 interview: Tony Isabella wrote a two-year story arc in which Blaze occasionally encountered an unnamed character referred to as "the Friend" who helped Blaze stay protected from Satan. Isabella said that with editorial approval he'd introduced the character, who "looked sort of like a hippie Jesus Christ and that's exactly who He was, though I never actually called Him that...." At the story arc's climax, Isabella had planned that Blaze "accepts Jesus Christ into his life. This gives him the strength to overcome Satan, though with more pyrotechnics than most of us can muster. He retains the Ghost Rider powers he had been given by Satan, but they are his to use as his new faith directs him." However, Isabella said, Jim Shooter, then an assistant editor, "took offense at my story. The issue was ready to go to the printer when he pulled it back and ripped it to pieces. He had some of the art redrawn and a lot of the copy rewritten to change the ending of a story two years in the making. "The Friend" was revealed to be, not Jesus, but a demon in disguise. To this day, I consider what he did to my story one of the three most arrogant and wrongheaded actions I've ever seen from an editor.〔 Blaze's Ghost Rider's career ended when the demon Zarathos, who inhabited Blaze's body as Ghost Rider, fled in issue #81 (June 1983), the finale, in order to pursue the villain named Centurious. Now free of his curse, Blaze went off to live with Roxanne. Blaze occasionally appeared in the subsequent 1990–1998 series, ''Ghost Rider'', which starred a related character, Daniel Ketch. This series revealed Blaze and Roxanne eventually got married and had two children. Blaze returned as Ghost Rider in a 2001 six-issue miniseries written by Devin Grayson; a second miniseries written by Garth Ennis in 2005; and an ongoing monthly series that began publication in July 2006. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ghost Rider (Johnny Blaze)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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